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Tuesday Topics
Tuesday Topics is a weekly exploration of a single topic from a blindness perspective brought to you by the American Council of the Blind. Co-hosted by Paul Edwards and Rick Morin, this two-hour podcast features panelists and live questions and comments from the zoom audience. We hope to fully explore any topic we cover! Divergent opinions are encouraged!
Episodes
- Tuesday Topics
20261027 Tuesday Topics - ACB Governance
20261027 - Tuesday Topics on ACB Governance Tuesday Topics takes a deliberately detailed approach to understanding where ACB governance is currently. ACB is…
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20261006 Tuesday Topics - The Importance of Affiliates
20261006 Tuesday Topics - The Importance of Affiliates Tuesday Topics continues its exploration of what makes ACB tick! We look at what may well be an…
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20260629 Tuesday Topics: The Future of the ACB National Conference and Convention
20260629 Tuesday Topics: The Future of the ACB National Convention This episode of Tuesday Topics explores what the ACB convention could be like in 5 years…
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20260922 Tuesday Topics - Remembering Terry Pacheco
20260922 Remembering Terry Pacheco Tuesday Topics focuses on remembering Theresa (Terry) Pacheco who has been active in ACB much longer than Paul Edwards…
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20260915 Tuesday Topics on diabetes and ACB Diabetics in Action (ACBDA)
20260915 Tuesday Topics on diabetes and ACB Diabetics in Action (ACBDA) This episode of Tuesday Topics focuses on diabetes and the work of ACB Diabetics in…
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20260908 Tuesday Topics revisits Employment of people who are blind or have low vision
20260908 Tuesday Topics revisits Employment of people who are blind or have low vision It was the day after Labor Day in the US and so it's appropriate to talk…
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20260901 - Tuesday Topics - The awesome and the awful
Occasionally Topics likes to ask questions with no right answers and our first September show does that! All of us are story tellers whether we know it or not!…
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20260825 - Tuesday Topics - All things Internet Radio
20260825 - Tuesday Topics - All things Internet Radio For the last two episodes of Tuesday Topics, we explored podcasts in great detail. Internet radio is sort…
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20260818 - Tuesday topics, Podcasts Part 2 - hit parade of podcasts
20260818 - Tuesday topics, Podcasts Part 2 Topics once more considers podcasts. Last week we described what they are and how they work and explored many of the…
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20260811 - Tuesday Topics - All things Podcasts
Within a day or two our podcast will be available which you can access on ACB Link or on any other podcast provider. Many devices make Tuesday Topics available…
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20260804 Tuesday Topics - 2026 Convention Wrapup
There is a tradition that all the leaders and members of ACB remember! We once more review the convention. We explore what was good, what was bad and we will…
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20260707 Tuesday Topics - 2026 ACB Convention - Voting, bylaws, resolutions
20260707 Tuesday Topics - 2026 ACB Convention - Voting, bylaws, resolutions Explore elements of the upcoming convention. We look at how elections will be…
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20260630 - Tuesday Topics - Scholarship and Summer Fun!
On June 30 Tuesday Topics will once more take to the internet waves with what has become a commonplace now. We will have one last scholarship winner and will…
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20260623 Tuesday Topics - Winners and Mentoring
Tuesday Topics welcomes more scholarship winners and Amanda Selm, Chair of the scholarship committee. Then Tuesday Topics explores new plans for one of the…
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20260616 - Tuesday Topics - Scholarships and Gardening with George Holiday
June 6, 2026 - Tuesday Topics - Scholarships and Gardening with George Holiday Two more scholarship winners join us to brighten up the start of the show and…
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20260609 - Tuesday Topics - Scholarship Winners and Grandparents
Tuesday Topics - Scholarship Winners and Grandparents June 9, 2026 Tuesday Topics once more takes to the internet with a double feature. First, we have some…
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20260602 - Tuesday Topics - Scholarship winners are on Tuesday Topics.
On June 2 Tuesday Topics will try another new thing! As we take to the internet we will create a platform for some of our ACB scholarship winners to tell us a…
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20260526 - Tuesday Topics - Awareness of global accessibility issues.
At a convention of the Florida Council of the Blind a speaker from Vispero mentioned Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) which happens on May 21, I…
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20260519 - Tuesday Topics - Graduates and Graduation.
It is graduation season and we wonder how that goes for people who are blind. When you graduated from high school or college was that a good experience? Were…
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20260512 - Tuesday Topics - autonomous vehicles.
In the past we have done programs on autonomous vehicles. Recently several folks have had the chance to ride in vehicles with no drivers and we thought it…
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Tuesday Topics 20260505 - Blindness Nation part two.mp3
We will be continuing the discussion begun on our latest podcast concerning the state of the blindness nation today and tomorrow. We have essentially finished…
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20260428 - Tuesday Topics - The state of the blindness nation now and in the future.
People who are blind have access to more information than they have ever had before! There is more technological choice for this population than there has ever…
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20260421 - Tuesday Topics - An early look at the ACB convention with two novel elements.
On April 21, from 7 to 9 PM Eastern time, Tuesday Topics will once more take to the internet and other devices with a first look at the ACB convention coming…
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20260414 - Tuesday Topics - Three new faces at ACB.
We are excited about this program because we will get the chance to have three guests who we will get to know better. All of them are ladies who have recently…
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20260407 - Tuesday Topics - Grand tech for under a grand Part 2.
Tuesday Topics continues its exploration of devices available to purchase for less than a thousand dollars. We will look at several sets of ear buds and…
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20260331 - Tuesday Topics - Grand tech for under a grand.
Everybody knows there is an unprecedented quantity of access technology out there. At CSUN three major new note takers were announced! They are at the…
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20260324 - Tuesday Topics - Literacy.
It may seem to some that the topic we have chosen this week is simplistic and doesn't involve a lot of discussion. We are hoping that the topic of literacy…
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20260317 - Tuesday Topics - Daylight Savings Time, St. Patrick's Day, and Spring Cleaning.
All of our topics stem from the time of year. First we will talk about daylight savings time. Is it a good idea? What does research say? Is it different for…
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20260303 - Tuesday Topics - ACB Opportunities.
ACB has deadlines! These are coming up pretty soon! They relate to things that will happen at the ACB convention. It is a tradition of this program that, at…
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20260224 - Tuesday Topics - Sports, then and now .
Two weeks ago we spent time looking at new technology that is making sporting events more accessible. How are things now? Are they better than in the past or…
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20260217 - Tuesday Topics - Romance Beyond Just Dating.
we will explore romance on Tuesday Topics. We have talked about dating before but this time we thought it would be interesting to go a little further. How do…
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20260210 Tuesday Topics: New technology that make sports more accessible
I think particularly people who are born blind often assume they know a lot more about how sports work than they actually do! I know that I take formations in…
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20260203 - Tuesday Topics Affiliate initiatives for membership.
Tuesday Topics will take a big risk! Lots of our shows depend on hearing from guests. We sometimes invite several guests to join us! This time we are making a…
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20260127 Tuesday Topics - Membership
This is the time of year when our affiliates are getting ready to send in membership lists so we thought it might be a good thing to talk about the good, the…
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20260120 Tuesday Topics - Your bests of the best from 2025.
It is still January so many people will still have a pretty good memory of what happened last year! We thought it would be fun to ask you to think back to last…
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20260113 - Tuesday Topics - the Totals versus the Partials.
Tuesday Topics will encourage folks to consider an issue that could potentially create some interesting disagreements. As we take to the internet and a range…
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20260106 - Tuesday Topics - Looking ahead with outsight.
Usually on Tuesday Topics we attach our predictions to other elements like "how to keep your resolutions" or something similar! This time we are flat out…
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20251216 - Tuesday Topics - The year 2025.
Those of you who have been long time listeners to our show can probably guess what our topic is. At the end of each year we like to review the events that…
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20251209 - Tuesday Topics - Vision With Closed Eyes.
There appears to be a whole range of ways that the brain reacts to picturing something with one's eyes closed. I listened to a recent program where a condition…
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20251125 - Tuesday Topics - Improv is Tuesday's Topic tonight.
Last year we featured a play with blind actors from our ACB Sacramento chapter. We hope to have them on in the future to share their latest project! On our…
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20251118 - Tuesday Topics - Communicating when extremes are the rule.
Tuesday Topics will once more tackle an issue that we think deserves atffention. We live in polarizing times! Politically our nation is perhaps more divided…
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20251111 - Tuesday Topics - Why should we celebrate Assistive Technology Month.
From 7 to 9 PM on November 11 Tuesday Topics will join in the celebration of Assistive Technology Awareness Month. I am not sure that this is its actual title…
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20251104 - Tuesday Topics - Fundraising.
From 7 to 9 PM on November 4 Tuesday Topics will consider fund raising as it applies to ACB and other blindness groups. ACB has a range of ways to raise money…
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20251028 Tuesday Topics - Halloween Experiences.
Tuesday Topics will explore halloween experiences. Did you trick or treat as a child who was blind? Did you like it or not? Did you take your children trick or…
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20251021 - Tuesday Topics - Medicare and Medicaid.
We are now on the two hudred and twenty-ninth show in the current series of Tuesday Topics. That is quite a number and I need to thank everybody involved for…
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20251014 1900 Tuesday Topics AI and Employment
Tuesday Topics concentrates on employment once more. October is Disability Employment Awareness Month (DEAM), and during this Tuesday Topics program, we…
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20251007 - Tuesday Topics - .
In the past Tuesday Topics has explored the White Cane Laws! It is once more October and White Cane Safety Day is October 15. We would like to explore how the…
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20250930 - Tuesday Topics - Unfinished Business, More about Myths.
We have unfinished business! We spent time identifying many of the myths that people who can see have about those of us with visual impairments! We promised to…
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20250923 - Tuesday Topics - Blindness Myths are explored this week
THIS week we want to explore what you think is the most egregious myth that is out there about people who are blind! There are lots of them but we thought it…
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20250909 - Tuesday Topics - exploring two problems we know exist and ways they can be approached.
It is generally recognized, though it isn't said often enough, that many people who are blind are overweight and sedentary. Recent research and statistics…
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20250902 - Tuesday Topics - Job-seeking experiences
We are just past Labor Day as this edition airs! We have devoted lots of programs to employment and it didn't surprise you that we offer another one. I think…
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20250826 - Tuesday Topics - Managing Emergencies.
Tuesday Topics will once more take to the various platforms where it can be heard. By then hurricane Erin will be long past concern but there will probably be…
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20250819 - Tuesday Topics - The Moment of Difference.
Tuesday Topics, for the first time, experienced technical issues at the beginning and at the end. Our podcast, when it becomes available, will include as much…
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20250812 - Tuesday Topics - new technology.
Tuesday Topics will be exploring new technology. What were some of the new items seen for the first time at our convention this year? What did people buy and…
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20250805 - Tuesday Topics - We welcome Scott Thornhill, ACB Executive Director.
Virtually every program on ACB Media has had Scott Thornhill on as a guest. Tuesday Topics which will be live at 7 Eastern on August 5 is now finally…
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20250729 - Tuesday Topics - Please share the most amazing thing that has happened to you in your life.
On JULY 29 at 7 PM eastern time Tuesday Topics will once more take to the internet. Once again we will be asking both our team and you to take a leap into your…
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20250722 - Tuesday Topics - A Deeper Convention Dive on Tuesday Topics Tonight.
For the second week in a row we will consider the convention. there were several folks who wanted to speak but didn't get a chance. We will also explore some…
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20250715 - Tuesday Topics - The convention is Tuesday's Topic tonight.
Tuesday Topics will once more take to the "air" on Tuesday July 15 from 7 to 9 PM. I hope our whole crew will be with us to explore with you the good, the bad…
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20250610 - Tuesday Topics - Two ACB leaders explore where our organization is.
As was suggested at the end of our last program, we are going to complete our convention preparedness show by looking at the state of ACB through the eyes of…
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20250603 - Tuesday Topics - Special Interest affiliates at the 2025 acb convention and beyond.
The ACB convention is rapidly approaching and we thought it might be fun to invite a few of ACB'S special interest affiliates to tell folks about what they…